INPEECH!!1

Really cool.

IT’S CALLED THE WHITE HOUSE FOR A REASON!!

America rocks!

That building has never looked better

Already I’m hearing “And HOW MUCH is this costing the Taxpayers?”

Idiots.

RBS

Free Republic goons are in full meltdown mode over this,

re: #6 RealityBasedSteve

Already I’m hearing “And HOW MUCH is this costing the Taxpayers?”

Idiots.

RBS

A lot less than the 100+ ACA repeals Boehner has pulled.

re: #6 RealityBasedSteve

Already I’m hearing “And HOW MUCH is this costing the Taxpayers?”

Idiots.

RBS

Prolly about a hundred bucks.

re: #6 RealityBasedSteve

Already I’m hearing “And HOW MUCH is this costing the Taxpayers?”

Idiots.

RBS

the price of big gay is bleeding us dry

i shouldn’t have my yearly taxes have to power a colored lightbulb for an hour

i hoe that at least those are incandescent bulbs!

So glad we have a president who values equality.

re: #11 HappyWarrior

So glad we have a president who values equality.

Imagine how a President Romney would have acted all week long.

re: #12 b.d.

Imagine how a President Romney would have acted all week long.

I don’t wanna know.

On the google page right now:

YouTube and Google are proud to celebrate marriage equality. #ProudtoLove

re: #7 Tigger2

Free Republic goons are in full meltdown mode over this,

I can imagine. I’d check it out, but I’m eating my dinner right now and would hate to lose my appetite.

RBS

Guys, I don’t know if it’s showing everywhere, but my local PBS station just happens to be showing the White House In Performance series, American Gospel segment.

Miss Re-Re herself, is “taking everybody to church: at the White House.

Just heard a song by Lyle Lovett that I never heard before. It was beautiful. All the music was.

I haven’t been to a church service in DECADES, but I still remember all the songs sung in my grandmother’s church and damn if I don’t feel that spirit right now.

It’s being rebroadcast at 1030 EST I believe

re: #7 Tigger2

Free Republic goons are in full meltdown mode over this,

@FreeRepublicTXT

What. The. Fuck?!?

Let them get angry. This country got more free today.

re: #9 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Prolly about a hundred bucks.

Less. You can get Lee gel pack with two each of all six colors for $25. They already had the lights.

Empire State Building, Niagara Falls, Disney World and The White House tonight in America #LoveWins pic.twitter.com/H7ofyRsyfV

— r.i.p kalief browder (@BlondeInLondon) June 27, 2015

re: #7 Tigger2

Free Republic goons are in full meltdown mode over this,

Those guys need to shut up and get their checkbooks out for JimRob so they can keep up their uber successful fight against Obama, gay rights, universal health care, mythical gun grabbing and the war on Christianity.

Thank God they are their on the front lines keeping all of those bad things at bay!!!!

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re: #17 teleskiguy

@FreeRepublicTXT

Image: What. The. Fuck?!?

@freeRepublicTxt is great…. it’s like the crack cocaine of derp.

RBS

The gays and Lesbians are legally getting married and smoking dope in the streets of Denver and Seattle tonight. My God.

— Richard M. Nixon (@PresNixonUSA) June 27, 2015

re: #4 prairiefire

America rocks!

We do! Love. Love. Love.

Nothing else but love you motherfuckers.

I goat you a flower ?? pic.twitter.com/mVu7euOBsR

— Sassy Goats (@TheSassyGoats) June 27, 2015

This week this country became a better country. Folks will be reading about this week in their history books shaking their heads that all of this stuff happened in a week’s time.

re: #23 teleskiguy

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Still would rather have him than any Republican running. How fucked up are they that I say that.

re: #24 #FergusonFireside

We do! Love. Love. Love.

Nothing else but love you motherfuckers.

We will take it where we can get it! Love won, won won!

re: #20 Lidane

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Falls is my favorite.

GIF of the night! This is me when my family tries to come over to my house unannounced! pic.twitter.com/Ol2MxDGBZ1

— Nelly B (@psddluva4evah) June 27, 2015

This week, the twilight zone.

— deray mckesson (@deray) June 27, 2015

Yup.

Some of the wingiest of wingnuts are causing cracks in the dam

I've often wondered why married people have unequal tax advantages over unmarried people. Is that not discriminatory?

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) June 26, 2015

Josh Smith is in full meltdown. By morning there’s just going to be a pair of smoldering clown shoes lying in some rubble.

Nope. We're skipping straight to incest, Alan. https://t.co/Mx24aEWfZv RT @AlanColmes: Op-Ed Calls For Polygamy Next http://t.co/19wUOPnMS0

— Josh Smith (@Ebolamerican) June 27, 2015

I'd also like to point out that you think Chuck Johnson is more despicable than this. Maybe step back & recalibrate. pic.twitter.com/JnUvnqKAS4

— Josh Smith (@Ebolamerican) June 27, 2015

re: #32 bill d

Some of the wingiest of wingnuts are causing cracks in the dam

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Really James?

re: #25 wrenchwench
I goat you a flower

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That one is so far past baaad that it’s come full circle and is good.

RBS

So two guys in their 80s just walked into a Dallas court and got married #LoveWins pic.twitter.com/dXEd4zm9IB

— R.Saddler (@Politics_PR) June 26, 2015

if Vox says so:

Barack Obama is officially one of the most consequential presidents in American history

vox.com

but damn, they make a pretty good case

My other GIF of the night…dedicated to my gay fam!

Wait…wait…one more GIF OF THE NIGHT! pic.twitter.com/8SktIAyEtb

— Nelly B (@psddluva4evah) June 27, 2015

re: #23 teleskiguy

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The gays and Lesbians are legally getting married and smoking dope in the streets of Denver and Seattle tonight. My God.

— Richard M. Nixon (@PresNixonUSA) June 27, 2015

Why do you think they call it dope, Dick?

“Cause it’s totally dope, y’all!!”

Just now caught up, but congratulations to all of us for moving forward a step today. The wingnut tears are so nourishing!

@GregAbbott_TX @ChuckKos20 God never defined or made marriage. Man did. Keep your misinformation out of governance. Bible scholars all know

— Bev Cowling (@songbird_63366) June 27, 2015

The wingnut tears of impotent rage are so delicious

Our own White House is bathed in the symbol of anti-Christian oppression. #BigGayHateFlag

— John Nolte (@NolteNC) June 27, 2015

ROFL, this is awesome:

Dude, it was built by slave labor. Warren G. Harding fucked there. Andrew Jackson kept a giant cheese wheel in it. pic.twitter.com/TvAP9EPmfP

— Big Sexy Jeb! Lund (@Mobute) June 27, 2015

Equal protection under the law seems to rule.

About damn time.

But wait, does this mean my marriage of 21 years is a farce?

Oh, My God! I feel a sudden need to suck cocks!

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re: #41 bill d

Alaskan double Nolte oppression.

re: #42 Lidane

Reminds me of:

Dignified

xkcd.com

re: #41 bill d

Come see the violence inherent in the system!

re: #45 Belafon

Reminds me of:

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xkcd.com

For some reason, that makes me think
“Despair thy charm,
“And let the angel whom thou still hast served
“Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother’s womb
“Untimely ripped.”

re: #42 Lidane

ROFL, this is awesome:

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lol, sacred giant cheese wheel.

Teddy Roosevelt turned the place into a petting zoo and the place was such a neglected dump that it almost fell down due to negligence and decay during the Truman presidency

I sure would like some examples of how teh ghey have oppressed Christians, shit about the only thing that may have been oppressed over would be against Evangelical fashion designers… ///////////////////////////////////////

The Twitter version of clapping for Tinkerbell:

RT if you believe marriage is the union of one man and one woman. https://t.co/7mf9mLaZ78 #Rick2016

— Rick Santorum (@RickSantorum) June 26, 2015

re: #50 bill d

Wow, 299 retweets.

re: #50 bill d

That’s almost half a high school graduating class.

re: #50 bill d

The Twitter version of clapping for Tinkerbell:

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“Believe in Traditional Marriage? Send me money to prove it!”

re: #51 jaunte

Wow, 299 retweets.

It’s literally .001% of all the Twitter accounts that follow anal leakage.

I’m off to bed, I’m working tomorrow so I can’t spend the time with all my favorite lizards.

I’ll leave you with a thought from Hunter S. Thompson…

re: #51 jaunte

Wow, 299 retweets.

299 is more than the 6 votes that the Supreme Court got!

re: #54 teleskiguy

It’s literally .001% of all the Twitter accounts that follow anal leakage.

Retweeting entails a big commitment.

Ok heading to bed. Was great spending today with you all.

Hahahahaha;

#tcot is already looking for the Muslims to bail them out.

So now thar same-sex marriage is legal in all states, when are mosques going to be required to perform them? #tcot pic.twitter.com/z6QMyQdDPh

— ┌П┐(•_•) (@exposeliberals) June 27, 2015

re: #54 teleskiguy

It’s literally .001% of all the Twitter accounts that follow anal leakage.

What about Productive Flatulence? That’s the problem with America, too many people just farting around, and not enough being productive.

RBS

You Americans are some weird ass motherfuckers. Same sex marriage and universal healthcare sure didn’t take that much effort up here and when we got it we didn’t celebrate anywhere near as much.

It’s like you fight to not poke yourselves in the eye with a stick and then weep tears of joy when you finally drop the stick.

Good on ya.

You sure the fuck aren’t boring.

re: #60 RealityBasedSteve

What about Productive Flatulence? That’s the problem with America, too many people just farting around, and not enough being productive.

RBS

The biggest threat to America is the sweatervest. If you read closely you’ll see how there is no reference to the sweatervest in the bible.

re: #59 bill d

Hahahahaha;

#tcot is already looking for the Muslims to bail them out.

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When churches are required to which is not.

re: #61 b_sharp

You Americans are some weird ass motherfuckers. Same sex marriage and universal healthcare sure didn’t take that much effort up here and when we got it we didn’t celebrate anywhere near as much.

It’s like you fight to not poke yourselves in the eye with a stick and then weep tears of joy when you finally drop the stick.

Good on ya.

You sure the fuck aren’t boring.

Just a heads up… incoming your way.

The Liberals have won the battle for America. Its 100% over. Canada is fare more conservative and not racist against whites or Christians.

— FreeRepublic.txt (@FreeRepublicTXT) June 27, 2015

Nah, don’t tell them ahead of time, let them be pleasantly surprised when they arrive.

RBS

What I’m thinking is, build a fully sapient artificial being, then seduce it.

The radical recontextualization of love and sexuality will make all intra-human issues seem small and petty.

Unfortunately, I don’t know how to control for the inevitability that an AI smart enough to think about romance and sex could be smart enough to design another AI that is even smarter about romance and sex, so a dozen developmental generations on, the human race is choked to extinction on robot sex pollution and the hurts-your-teeth twee sweetness of two sapient supercomputers who are just so perfectly compatible and happy together.

This week we were offered a glimpse of the raw power of #tcot in all of their productive and policy changing glory.

re: #64 RealityBasedSteve

Just a heads up… incoming your way.

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Nah, don’t tell them ahead of time, let them be pleasantly surprised when they arrive.

RBS

If liberals have won 100%, could we have single payer healthcare for all please?

re: #64 RealityBasedSteve

Just a heads up… incoming your way.

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Nah, don’t tell them ahead of time, let them be pleasantly surprised when they arrive.

RBS

Canada sounds like a great place for the future wingnut homeland.

re: #15 RealityBasedSteve

I can imagine. I’d check it out, but I’m eating my dinner right now and would hate to lose my appetite.

RBS

LOL they are calling it Barry’s Bathhouse.

re: #59 bill d

Hahahahaha;

#tcot is already looking for the Muslims to bail them out.

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SQUIRREL!

Someone is spending too much time thinking about molesting farm animals https://t.co/Na3CAB4NZG

— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 27, 2015

And what about sheep shaggers, camel chasers, and other faunaphiles? No seriously, folks, this bloke has a problem! https://t.co/YAEtciQIIR

— Robert Waddell (@TroyWaddell) June 27, 2015

re: #68 bill d

Canada sounds like a great place for the future wingnut homeland.

Ah.

No.

I work evenings, so I missed the memorial in SC.

But I’m catching up now. Man…those pics of FLOTUS and POTUS arriving and greeting the Pinckney girls and their mom

This has got to be hitting FLOTUS really hard! Sen Pinckney…father of two girls, Black politician…there but by the grace of God…and all that.

Brought to mind when FLOTUS talked about her worse fears on the campaign trail when she talked about why she was scared for Barack to run for President.

And I see this pic with Mrs Pinckney and her girls and I’m just overcome.

Sorry to be a debbie downer…but with all the good news today and yesterday…the SC funeral was sobering.

Malana Pinckney glances at President Barack Obama at service honoring her father, the late Rev. Clementa… #UniteBlue pic.twitter.com/6i7RZE3ilH

— The Progressive Mind (@Libertea2012) June 27, 2015

It’s a two-fer:

Getting married today following the #SCOTUS ruling? You qualify for a special enrollment period for insurance under the SCOTUS-affirmed #ACA

— Joanne Peters (@JoannePtrs) June 26, 2015

re: #73 psddluva4evah

So much waste, so much sorrow-and for what?

re: #50 bill d

The Twitter version of clapping for Tinkerbell:

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@RickSantorum Personally I think you are a bigot. RT if you agree with me.

— jim (@jlcoffeecup) June 27, 2015

re: #73 psddluva4evah

I work evenings, so I missed the memorial in SC.

But I’m catching up now. Man…those pics of FLOTUS and POTUS arriving and greeting the Pinckney girls and their mom

This has got to be hitting FLOTUS really hard! Sen Pinckney…father of two girls, Black politician…there but by the grace of God…and all that.

Brought to mind when FLOTUS talked about her worse fears on the campaign trail when she talked about why she was scared for Barack to run for President.

And I see this pic with Mrs Pinckney and her girls and I’m just overcome.

Sorry to be a debbie downer…but with all the good news today and yesterday…the SC funeral was sobering.

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I was sniffling just from the tweets from the service.

re: #61 b_sharp

You Americans are some weird ass motherfuckers. Same sex marriage and universal healthcare sure didn’t take that much effort up here and when we got it we didn’t celebrate anywhere near as much.

It’s like you fight to not poke yourselves in the eye with a stick and then weep tears of joy when you finally drop the stick.

Good on ya.

You sure the fuck aren’t boring.

We are a weird bunch, but you try fighting the Party of God No on this most basic of shit…you’d be celebrating like we are, too.

re: #76 Tigger2

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RT if you’re tired of Republicans being unable talk about issues so they scapegoat gays.

re: #74 Belafon

It’s a two-fer:

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Two for the price of one, plus a dollar…

…

(look at the Family Booterie [a shoe store that used to be here in Nashville] ad at 0:32)

re: #76 Tigger2

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LOL I got 5 RTs already.

re: #61 b_sharp

You Americans are some weird ass motherfuckers. Same sex marriage and universal healthcare sure didn’t take that much effort up here and when we got it we didn’t celebrate anywhere near as much.

It’s like you fight to not poke yourselves in the eye with a stick and then weep tears of joy when you finally drop the stick.

Good on ya.

You sure the fuck aren’t boring.

My Christian education was Anglican, in Britain.

Like, thirty years later I’m still trying to figure out at what exact point in US non-denom Christian they hand out the secret decoder ring that lets you figure what parts of the Old Testament God will Cronenburg you for, and the “nah, he didn’t mean it” bits like forgiving debts every Jubilee.

That’s in addition to the more simple struggle of, “if God’s plan is to kill everybody via Revelations, junk, how do you differentiation general God-smite death tolls from prophecy-mandated tolls?”

re: #61 b_sharp

You Americans are some weird ass motherfuckers. Same sex marriage and universal healthcare sure didn’t take that much effort up here and when we got it we didn’t celebrate anywhere near as much.

It’s like you fight to not poke yourselves in the eye with a stick and then weep tears of joy when you finally drop the stick.

Good on ya.

You sure the fuck aren’t boring.

A Canadian calling anyone weird?
Rofl.
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Anybody who's a goddamned hippie knows that the #umphreys are where it's at. Phish was good, in like, the 90s, man. @JamesUrbaniak

— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) June 27, 2015

@teleskiguy Look, at least I didn't say the Dead.

— James Urbaniak (@JamesUrbaniak) June 27, 2015

re: #78 TedStriker

We are a weird bunch, but you try fighting the Party of God No on this most basic of shit…you’d be celebrating like we are, too.

I am.

re: #84 teleskiguy

it’s awesome that you get to talk to Dr. Venture

re: #83 Varek Raith

A Canadian calling anyone weird?
Rofl.
///

We’re in the best position to recognize it.

Good night lizards. Hasta mañana.

re: #61 b_sharp

Weird is charitable.

re: #89 Amory Blaine

Weird is charitable.

I’m Canadian.

re: #90 b_sharp

I’m Canadian.

Loony.

re: #91 Varek Raith

Loony.

Twony.

I’m going to bed. re: #92 austin_blue

Twony.

Toonie.

Sorry, I forgot the ‘eh!’

re: #93 Amory Blaine

“Dad, Bob broke your beer!”

“No, Doug did!”

re: #95 teleskiguy

“Dad, Bob broke your beer!”

“No, Doug did!”

“Give in to The Dark Side, ya knob!”

The Libyan Branch of ISIL is suspected in the attack in Tunisia yesterday.

Hopefully, this will be a rude awakening to help out the Tobruk government. Not only that, but one wonders how they entered Tunisia. I would think through the border, which is controlled by the nasty MB government, which recently attacked the Tunisian Embassy in Tripoli.

Didn’t realize we had a new thread going when I posted this…

@TPM It's really sad that @weeklystandard used the classic borg phrase AND DIDN'T INCLUDE RAINBOW BORG OR A RAINBOW CUBE!

— jay (@random__name) June 27, 2015

A brief summary of the court’s dissents today

Roberts - mendacious
Scalia - asshole
Alito - stupid
Thomas - motherfucking nuclear insanity

Back from movie watching. Watched “In America.” Just seemed appropriate today for some reason. Hadn’t watched it in a long time—love that movie.

Back to reality. Could Ted Cruz be any more full of shit?

“I’ve introduced a constitutional amendment that would protect the authority of state legislatures to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman. We should pass that amendment,”

Uh huh, we’ll get right on that, Teddie.

Cruz also proposed a Constitutional amendment that would subject Justices to retention elections every eight years in an op-ed for the National Review. Each Justice, he said, would be up for election after the second presidential election following their appointment to the high court.

“Those justices deemed unfit for retention by both a majority of the American people as a whole and by majorities of the electorates in at least half of the 50 states will be removed from office and disqualified from future service on the Court,” he wrote.

rawstory.com

WTF does the part I bolded even mean? Somebody? Anybody?

Edited to warn: The photo accompanying this story is what nightmares are made of!

re: #99 Viscous Obama

A brief summary of the court’s dissents today

Roberts - mendacious
Scalia - asshole
Alito - stupid
Thomas - motherfucking nuclear insanity

Excellent analysis. Or, as Kaili Joy Gray describes them at Wonkette:

Supreme Court Losers Lose Their Sh*t Over Gay Marriage, And It’s Delightful

Halfway through her dissection of Thomas’s idiocy, she writes:
Wait a minute — does anyone even care what Thomas thinks? No? OK, moving on.

wonkette.com

re: #100 BeachDem

Back from movie watching. Watched “In America.” Just seemed appropriate today for some reason. Hadn’t watched it in a long time—love that movie.

Back to reality. Could Ted Cruz be any more full of shit?

“I’ve introduced a constitutional amendment that would protect the authority of state legislatures to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman. We should pass that amendment,”

Uh huh, we’ll get right on that, Teddie.

Cruz also proposed a Constitutional amendment that would subject Justices to retention elections every eight years in an op-ed for the National Review. Each Justice, he said, would be up for election after the second presidential election following their appointment to the high court.

“Those justices deemed unfit for retention by both a majority of the American people as a whole and by majorities of the electorates in at least half of the 50 states will be removed from office and disqualified from future service on the Court,” he wrote.

rawstory.com

WTF does the part I bolded even mean? Somebody? Anybody?

That sure as Hell sounds like a national referendum to me—which I know we don’t have in this country, but apparently Harvard Educated Lawyer™ Ted Cruz doesn’t. Hey Gomer! There’s another constitutional amendment you’re going to need as a prerequisite to that one.

But then, I’m not even a thawed-out caveman lawyer….

Christ, I’ve got an infestation of @PolitiBunny minions all up in my mentions.

re: #101 BeachDem

Excellent analysis. Or, as Kaili Joy Gray describes them at Wonkette:

Supreme Court Losers Lose Their Sh*t Over Gay Marriage, And It’s Delightful

Halfway through her dissection of Thomas’s idiocy, she writes:
Wait a minute — does anyone even care what Thomas thinks? No? OK, moving on.

wonkette.com

Thomas is nuts, but I can’t get over how dim Alito is — he’s come up with spurious “intrinsic rights” and other bullshit during his tenure, but transparently ruling on what he thinks will be the supposed outcome is a mockery of judicial review. Nor should one assume marriage merely exists as, in his words, to “encourage potentially procreative conduct”. Where does it say that in the marriage document, fool?

How is it 2015 and we still don’t have a jerk off motion emoji?

— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) June 27, 2015

re: #103 goddamnedfrank

Christ, I’ve got an infestation of @PolitiBunny minions all up in my mentions.

I noticed the, uh, dialogue you guise have been having. I found out tonight that I am blocked by @PolitiBunny.

Huh.

re: #106 teleskiguy

I noticed the, uh, dialogue you guise have been having. I found out tonight that I am blocked by @PolitiBunny.

Huh.

I was blocking her but follow @lacoguy and he has civil conversations with her so I decided to wade in and boy was that a mistake. She can front some really annoying arguments nothing I’m not prepared to handle, and she keeps it more or less on the level. Her followers however are the worst.

re: #107 goddamnedfrank

I was blocking her but follow @lacoguy and he has civil conversations with her so I decided to wade in and boy was that a mistake. She can front some really annoying arguments nothing I’m not prepared to handle, and she keeps it more or less on the level. Her followers however are the worst.

She’s a crazy hardcore John Galt libertarian who at one time was an esteemed member of the Twitter Gulag Defense Network. She’s very selfish.

re: #105 goddamnedfrank

Best I can do @goddamnedfrank pic.twitter.com/CozmXxE2Sk

— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 27, 2015

I mean, why exactly should we care about that? They’re long dead, so isn’t it time we buried their social prejudices along with them?

— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) June 27, 2015

Because what they DID put into the Constitution was a 14th Amendment Equal Protection Clause that plainly says it applies to “any person.”

— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) June 27, 2015

Fired up the GotNwes type-a-writers again:

EXCLUSIVE: Kicked to the curb yet again, blogger laments visiting DC event

The absolutely true story of how blogger Award Winning JournalistTM and libel-suit filer Chuck C. Johnson got dis-invited from yet another GOP political event, as told to our vivid imagination.
*********

I haven’t had much to do lately, what with my Twitter access gone and GotNewsDotCom sitting dead in the water, so you can imagine how excited I was when a friend asked to attend a bash held by Grover Norquist in DC.

Did you know I met Grover Norquist once? Yeah, it was at CPAC. We talked about immigration and Japanese land policy while we stood at the urinals. As I recall, he finished before I did.

Anyway, this being America, I tend to go to places I’m invited to. They don’t do that in other countries. I know. I’ve been to more countries than you have.

More at gotnwes.com

And an exclusive report on 21 days without GotNewsDotCom

EXCLUSIVE: ‘New media’ disrupter GotNewsDotCom dead in water 21 days

But $66 mil, on the other hand …

And by “glitch” in the 14A I mean shit they couldn’t have foreseen and they’re fucking dead now so who gives a shit about their intent.

— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) June 27, 2015

…

“That poor man. Not only has he just been screwed by a giant eye, but now he’s giving birth.”

re: #113 goddamnedfrank

That’s the second time I’ve posted a Hulk Hogan meme since the mandatory gay marriage Supreme Dictators putsch came through yesterday. Yikes.

“heard you were—crap heard you—agh heard you w—jesus gimme a sec—argh heard you were talking smack . pic.twitter.com/9BtBwintks”

— Cat Porn(TM) (@CatPornx) June 27, 2015

re: #59 bill d

So now thar same-sex marriage is legal in all states, when are mosques going to be required to perform them?

Oh I forgot, this is the first step to outlawing Christian marriage and allowing only gays to marry.

/

Oh, goody! Radical Anxiety Termination is here!

On a somewhat related note, Al Jazeera did a documentary about gay conversion therapy in China.

shanghaiist.com

It doesn’t work in China, either.

re: #117 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Oh I forgot, this is the first step to outlawing Christian marriage and allowing only gays to marry.

/

So, I wake up here in Europe, and lo and behold, much to my surprise, the North American continent still hasn’t fallen into the fiery, molten pit of Hell.

What’s up with that?

*chuckles to self*

re: #120 Dr Lizardo

So, I wake up here in Europe, and lo and behold, much to my surprise, the North American continent still hasn’t fallen into the fiery, molten pit of Hell.

What’s up with that?

*chuckles to self*

Wingnut God’s wrath schedules according to the US Central timezone.

re: #120 Dr Lizardo

So, I wake up here in Europe, and lo and behold, much to my surprise, the North American continent still hasn’t fallen into the fiery, molten pit of Hell.

What’s up with that?

*chuckles to self*

God is waiting for the 4th of July to make his point clear…

re: #122 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

God is waiting for the 4th of July to make his point clear…

Well, if he’s going to smite the USA, he needs to do it before Aug. 3, when I’ll be flying into Chicago. Just sayin’.

re: #123 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Well, if he’s going to smite the USA, he needs to do it before Aug. 3, when I’ll be flying into Chicago. Just sayin’.

It will be a pile of glowing rubble by then.

re: #26 bill d

This week this country became a better country. Folks will be reading about this week in their history books shaking their heads that all of this stuff happened in a week’s time.

And all during an Administration that the opposition vowed (and worked toward) destroying. I love it.

re: #124 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

It will be a pile of glowing rubble by then.

I wouldn’t be at all surprised to discover that some of the wingnuttier folks are praying non-stop for some kind of natural disaster, perhaps a terrorist attack, or some other horrific event. I’m also pretty sure they’re frantically hoping the Rapture (a non-biblical concept, btw) takes place PDQ.

Of course natural disasters happen - they’ve always happened; it’s the price we pay for living on a geologically active planet. But they’re no doubt hoping for one so they can ascribe some kind of supernatural meaning to it.

re: #124 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

It will be a pile of glowing rubble by then.

Damn. Well, maybe we can be diverted to Montreal. Never been there.

Oh, wait. Canada will be smote (smited, smitten?), too, what with national health care and stuff.

I hear Havana is OK.

re: #127 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Damn. Well, maybe we can be diverted to Montreal. Never been there.

Oh, wait. Canada will be smote (smited, smitten?), too, what with national health care and stuff.

I hear Havana is OK.

You will have to be diverted to Russia. They still have Godly values there.

re: #128 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

You will have to be diverted to Russia. They still have Godly values there.

Heck, I can take a Chinese train to the border and walk across. Forget that!
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June 26th, 2003: Lawrence v Texas: SCOTUS rules that same-sex sexual activity is legal in all 50 states, declaring anti-sodomy laws unconstitutional.

June 26th, 2013: United States v Windsor: SCOTUS declares the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional.

June 26th, 2015: Obergefell v Hodges: SCOTUS rules that SSM is legal in all 50 states, overturning SSM bans.

All on June 26th - and all in the space of a dozen years. Quite amazing, when you think about it, and a nicely uncanny coincidence.

re: #120 Dr Lizardo

So, I wake up here in Europe, and lo and behold, much to my surprise, the North American continent still hasn’t fallen into the fiery, molten pit of Hell.

What’s up with that?

*chuckles to self*

BTW, Doc—thanks to your quotation from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung a couple of threads ago, I now know the German word for “hillbilly”. (Der) Hinterwäldler: “Backwoodser”. Delightful.

re: #131 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

BTW, Doc—thanks to your quotation from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung a couple of threads ago, I now know the German word for “hillbilly”. (Der) Hinterwäldler: “Backwoodser”. Delightful.

No problem.

One of my Czech students saw the vid of President Obama’s eulogy yesterday and he commented to me via Skype, “Can we have him when you’re done? He’d be a vast improvement over the obese, alcoholic, chain-smoking imbecile currently residing up in Prague Castle. It’d be nice to have a real President here for a change - we haven’t really had one since Havel died.”

LOLOLOL

re: #131 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

BTW, Doc—thanks to your quotation from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung a couple of threads ago, I now know the German word for “hillbilly”. (Der) Hinterwäldler: “Backwoodser”. Delightful.

I was once hiking through a region known as the “Hinterwald” in west-central Germany, and recall passing an eerie place with a tumble-down barn and an unkempt manure pile (even manure piles are generally tidy in Germany) , along with a somewhat demented-looking person staring at us from the front stoop.

All that was missing was banjo music…

re: #133 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I was once hiking through a region known as the “Hinterwald” in west-central Germany, and recall passing an eerie place with a tumble-down barn and an unkempt manure pile (even manure piles are generally tidy in Germany) , along with a somewhat demented-looking person staring at us from the front stoop.

All that was missing was banjo music…

Probably, concertina music, given the location

re: #132 Dr Lizardo

No problem.

One of my Czech students saw the vid of President Obama’s eulogy yesterday and he commented to me via Skype, “Can we have him when you’re done? He’d be a vast improvement over the obese, alcoholic, chain-smoking imbecile currently residing up in Prague Castle. It’d be nice to have a real President here for a change - we haven’t really had one since Havel died.”

LOLOLOL

I remember Jimmy Carter was nominated for Secretary General of the United Nations—wouldn’t the wingnuts love it if Obama was too? Shit—what if he won?

All the arguments about Constitutional due process and the role of the SCOTUS are just cover for wanting control over lives of gay people.

— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) June 27, 2015

So no, I don’t take these sophistic arguments about people just being upset at “the way” gay marriage became legal seriously at all.

— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) June 27, 2015

People clearly haven’t thought this shit through at all.

Alabamans voted twice in the last 11 years to retain racial school segregation in their State Con. You’d force gays to beg them? @_JLindner

— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) June 27, 2015

re: #137 goddamnedfrank

People clearly haven’t thought this shit through at all.

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John L @_JLindner

#StatesLose #SoMuchForThe10thAmendment

FYI I support gay marriage but…they shouldn’t have forced the issue, shoulda let each state Vote.

Is this goober aware that 14 > 10?

re: #138 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Is this goober aware that 14 > 10?

AFAIK, no state constitution specifies marriage must be between one man and one woman. The only restrictions regard age of consent.

Or am I hallucinating?

re: #139 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

AFAIK, no state constitution specifies marriage must be between one man and one woman. The only restrictions regard age of consent.

Or am I hallucinating?

I don’t know—since DOMA, some state constitutions might have been amended to say that. I’m sure they didn’t before, not out of any motive to be even-handed, but just because it never occurred to them.

I was kind of surprised by the age of consent thing. I remember looking at the chart in some almanac back when it was relevant to me (so…1969? 70?) and there were a few backwaters like New York and Alaska where it was 18, in the former Confederacy it was pretty uniformly 12, and in Delaware it was 7 (!), but in most states, including mine, it was 16. I was taken aback recently to learn that it had become 18 everywhere—when did that happen?

ETA: Not that I personally have anything to worry about, just for clarity.

Well, if there is indeed a mass wingnut exodus out of the US, realistically, the only place they can really go is Russia.

I wouldn’t be surprised, though, if some of them think about Israel - that is to say, the Israel that exists in their imaginations, as opposed to the real Israel that is extraordinarily progressive regarding LGBT rights.

en.wikipedia.org

re: #141 Dr Lizardo

Well, if there is indeed a mass wingnut exodus out of the US, realistically, the only place they can really go is Russia.

I wouldn’t be surprised, though, if some of them think about Israel - that is to say, the Israel that exist in their imaginations, as opposed to the real Israel that is extraordinarily progressive regarding LGBT rights.

en.wikipedia.org

A lot of them are saying they’re going to move to Canada (LOL), but they’d get an even ruder shock if they moved to Israel.

re: #142 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

A lot of them are saying they’re going to move to Canada (LOL), but they’d get an even ruder shock if they moved to Israel.

Yeah, you bet they would. I’d daresay they’d be genuinely shocked - and likely be on the next plane out of Tel Aviv once they found out.

FYI Jesus had a dysfunctional love / hate relationship with a fig tree. Not sure he’s the go to guy for these anti gay marriage arguments.

— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) June 27, 2015

Just sayin’.

Cruz: “some of the darkest 24 hours in our nation's history.” Hannity: “I couldn't have said it more eloquently.” https://t.co/teysIKPVvp

— Andrew Kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) June 26, 2015

Fucked in the head.

re: #145 goddamnedfrank

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Fucked in the head.

Pardon my french, but more than fucked. At least fucked more than once.
Bukakke’d in the head?

Help me out guys…

re: #146 Teukka

Marriage equality and Obamacare are right up there with 9/11 and Pear Harbor apparently.

Ted Cruz isn’t the first person to jump on this retarded idea either.

From a moral standpoint, 6/26 is now our 9/11.

— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) June 26, 2015

Bears flew planes into Bryan’s penis or something.

I can’t help but wonder how the wingnuts would react if Israel approved SSM? To be honest, I don’t see it happening right away - the current composition of the Knesset seems to preclude that - but polls have shown that a majority of Israelis do approve of SSM, which is keeping in line with their progressive stance towards LGBT rights.

I think the wingnuts would absolutely lose their damned minds (if it’s possible for them to lose that even more than they already have), because if Israel did indeed allow SSM, it would be certainly be international headline news.

re: #148 Dr Lizardo

I can’t help but wonder how the wingnuts would react if Israel approved SSM? To be honest, I don’t see it happening right away - the current composition of the Knesset seems to preclude that - but polls have shown that a majority of Israelis do approve of SSM, which is keeping in line with their progressive stance towards LGBT rights.

I think the wingnuts would absolutely lose their damned minds (if it’s possible for them to lose that even more than they already have), because if Israel did indeed allow SSM, it would be certainly be international headline news.

It does, in a way. Israel already officially records same sex marriage performed abroad and gives same sex couples all the same rights. Same sex marriage inside Israel faces the same barrier preventing atheists and most interfaith couples from getting married there, they have no secular marriage, but honor secular marriages performed abroad. Otherwise, to get married inside Israel requires involving a religious authority, which results in very strict rules about who a Cohen may marry for instance.

re: #149 goddamnedfrank

It does, in a way. Israel already officially records same sex marriage performed abroad and gives same sex couples all the same rights. Same sex marriage inside Israel faces the same barrier preventing atheists and most interfaith couples from getting married there, they have no secular marriage, but honor secular marriages performed abroad. Otherwise, to get married inside Israel requires involving a religious authority, which results in very strict rules about who a Cohen may marry for instance.

Heh…..that alone would no doubt come as quite shocking to the RWNJ’s, who seem to think that Israel today is the same as it was in the 2nd Century B.C. or something.

I remember reading once, years ago, a commenter on FR who was utterly shocked that LGBT Israelis can openly serve in the military. He (or she) couldn’t believe it and was left wondering why God hadn’t poured down His wrath on Israel yet.

So a wingnut brought this to my attention…

Why the Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage could lead to civil war

Yep, massive butthurt advisory in effect. Verified.

Oh hell.
My Nazarene minister of a brother, who is normally contemptuous of fundies and their craziness, appears to have gotten a dose of the kool-aid after all and is now saying that he will refuse to perform same-sex weddings even if he is threatened with arrest.
I reminded him that there are still preachers who refuse to perform interracial weddings and they are not arrested (though they are mocked and reviled when they come to light). He immediately demanded to know if I was equating his stance with racial bigotry. I just said, “The shoe fits, in that both you and a racist bigot are refusing to perform a legal, civil ceremony for religious reasons.” It is not illegal to be a racist, and it is not, and will not be, illegal to be a homophobe. He can marry, or not marry, whomever he chooses, but I am embarrassed and disappointed that he would pursue fake martyr cookies over this choice.

Closing the week out in style:

BREAKING: Activists in South Carolina are in process of taking down the confederate battle flag. #keepitdown pic.twitter.com/MBIyWC8PUp

— Ferguson Action (@fergusonaction) June 27, 2015

The flag is gone. All props to local organizers for this amazing action. #keepitdown pic.twitter.com/MaZbJWlVXP

— Ferguson Action (@fergusonaction) June 27, 2015

I just remembered - where’s the wave of fundie Christian divorces in the wake of the Obergefell v Hodges decision? Where’s the mass self-immolations of wingnut preachers? Are the wingnuts going to do disappoint me and not go all Masada, as they promised they would? Didn’t Glenn Beck say he had 10,000 preachers ready to die?

Fucking laughable cowards, each and every one. Pussies. They talk so big, yet when all is said and done, they’re nothing more than whiny, cringing lickspittles.

For all their tough, badass talk, they’d be the first ones to recite the Shahada if they were actually confronted with a Da’esh headchopper. That would certainly be quite the sight, wouldn’t it - them trying to say, “lā ʾilāha ʾillā-llāh, muhammadur rasūlu-llāh” while simultaneously blubbering, “Please don’t kill me!” and soiling themselves.

Brittany Newsome, an activist just scaled the pole in #SC & took down the #Confederate flag let's #keepitdown pic.twitter.com/GypFn4EAkJ

— Rashad Robinson (@rashadrobinson) June 27, 2015

re: #147 goddamnedfrank

From a moral standpoint, 6/26 is now our 9/11.

From a moral standpoint, Bryan Fischer is a steaming pile of dog turds…

re: #153 goddamnedfrank

Closing the week out in style:

Oh, brace for incoming wingnut howls of impotent rage.

re: #158 Dr Lizardo

Oh, brace for incoming wingnut howls of impotent rage.

How about a compromise?

re: #159 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

How about a compromise?

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Not bad, but I think this would be better.

My Governor is a dick.

Otter calls marriage ruling ‘truly disappointing’

BOISE — Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter responded Friday morning to the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling legalizing gay marriage in all 50 states, calling the decision “truly disappointing.”

.@ButchOtter So the ruling on same SSM “disappointing” Should have left it up 2 the States. Do U feel the same about inter-racial marriage?

— Bubblehead II (@BubbleheadII) June 27, 2015

Not really expecting a response.

L8R. Time to go to work.

re: #156 goddamnedfrank

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surprised it’s taken this long for someone to just take action and take it down already.

re: #160 Dr Lizardo

Not bad, but I think this would be better.

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Morning all.

Coffees on, the boat is hooked up. I really just stopped by to check the weather….

I saw this and was immediately struck by the tune from Deliverance..

That has now pushed out the Dopapod tune that’s been running there for the last week.

And once I come to LGF and see the great news. Love it :)

re: #163 Dave In Austin

What Dopapod tune?

I’ve been listening to Lindemann these past few days.

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re: #149 goddamnedfrank

It does, in a way. Israel already officially records same sex marriage performed abroad and gives same sex couples all the same rights. Same sex marriage inside Israel faces the same barrier preventing atheists and most interfaith couples from getting married there, they have no secular marriage, but honor secular marriages performed abroad. Otherwise, to get married inside Israel requires involving a religious authority, which results in very strict rules about who a Cohen may marry for instance.

An interesting mixture of regressive and progressive policies.

And yes, Israel should get rid of the former.

re: #165 Nyet

What Dopapod tune?

Picture in Picture…

Great tune but quite sticky….. Here’s a live ver.

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re: #161 Bubblehead II

My Governor is a dick.

Otter calls marriage ruling ‘truly disappointing’

BOISE — Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter responded Friday morning to the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling legalizing gay marriage in all 50 states, calling the decision “truly disappointing.”

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Not really expecting a response.

L8R. Time to go to work.

I know we had a Senator called “Scoop” for many years…but Governor “Butch”? Seriously?

Well, fuck.

BREAKING: SC has ordered the flag be put back up. Just in time for the white supremacist rally at 11AM today. pic.twitter.com/h0pBq15uWb

— Ferguson Action (@fergusonaction) June 27, 2015

Bree wanted to ensure that white racists had no flag to worship at their rally today. The State of SC disagreed. pic.twitter.com/YtqyjcvJhN

— Ferguson Action (@fergusonaction) June 27, 2015

“A” for effort tho’.

re: #161 Bubblehead II

In the end, the WSA (Wingnut States of America - aka, Jesusland) states will comply with the Obergefell v Hodges decision. They’re just trying to figure out a way to comply while making it look like they’re not - they gotta be able to hustle the rubes, after all. They’ll make noises like ‘freedom’ and ‘religious liberty’; they’ll bitterly complain about ‘having Big Gay shoved down their throats’ (ahem!) and some of them will probably even come up with meaningless legislation to pander to the wingnuts, loons like Alabama’s Roy Moore notwithstanding - he’ll go down fighting, but when all is said and done, it’s an exercise in futility.

And deep down, they know this.

Next time, the pulleys come down with the flag.

A black woman just forced South Carolina to put the Confederate flag back up in time for a pro-flag hate rally this morning. Optics matter.

— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) June 27, 2015

re: #173 goddamnedfrank

What black woman? (Really don’t know.)

re: #174 Nyet

What black woman? (Really don’t know.)

Brittany “Bree” Newsome, the activist who climbed the pole in SC and took the Confederate Flag down this morning.

re: #175 goddamnedfrank

Oh, I read this tweet in the opposite sense then :D

So Jindal proposed getting rid of the SCOTUS.

#Bree

re: #61 b_sharp

You Americans are some weird ass motherfuckers. Same sex marriage and universal healthcare sure didn’t take that much effort up here and when we got it we didn’t celebrate anywhere near as much.

It’s like you fight to not poke yourselves in the eye with a stick and then weep tears of joy when you finally drop the stick.

Good on ya.

You sure the fuck aren’t boring.

It’s one of the things I like the best about living in Canada. We are really fucking boring.

Excitement is a highly overrated emotion in my opinion.

re: #177 Nyet

So Jindal proposed getting rid of the SCOTUS.

Rhodes Scholar.

Because for decades after it passed the 14th Amendment clearly wasn’t applied to women. If authorial intent ruled then it still wouldn’t.

— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) June 27, 2015

re: #65 The Ghost of a Bikini Shank

I am recalling an old and probably almost unknown SF novel from the 60s; Watchers of the Dark.

In it the powerful of the galaxy had made marriage pretty much about power. People got married, usually to other species, for political and economic reasons. For offspring they had mates of the same species.

Nobody saw any problem with that.

re: #68 bill d

Canada sounds like a great place for the future wingnut homeland.

If they hate America as currently constituted Canada will reduce them to catatonia.

re: #182 Romantic Heretic

I am recalling an old and probably almost unknown SF novel from the 60s; Watchers of the Dark.

In it the powerful of the galaxy had made marriage pretty much about power. People got married, usually to other species, for political and economic reasons. For offspring they had mates of the same species.

Nobody saw any problem with that.

Oh man, I was a huge Biggle fan back then. I don’t know why he seems to have fallen from favor since—in those days, of the very slim pickings of Science Fiction in the library, probably half the titles were his.

It took SCOTUS 99 years to realize the 14th Amendment protected interracial couples. So please, tell me again how authorial intent matters?

— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) June 27, 2015

re: #181 goddamnedfrank

Then to blacks too?

From the Patriotism Files:

My allegiance to this country is gone

Posted on 06/27/2015 1:58:58 AM PDT by MARKUSPRIME

My allegiance to this country is gone, and I used to be so highly patriotic. Its a very sad day. Let the chinese or russians have it, my allegiance is to God, I am done with trying to change this liberal godless cancer of a country.

————-

God has set the date for the destruction for the harlot nation. I pray for my children and grandchildren many times a day. It will be terrible for the young because no one bothered to stop this evil, which shall be punished as it always is.

3 posted on 6/27/2015, 5:49:18 AM by txrefugee
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re: #118 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Oh, goody! Radical Anxiety Termination is here!

Oh great. We’re playing God, again.

Shock of your life
Take 1 minute to comprehend what you read below.

During our lifetimes, all Presidents have issued Executive Orders. For various reasons, some have issued more than others. These things will directly affect us all, in years to come.

Question is: Do YOU care enough to send this, ‘shocking info,’ to people you love

Ike - 2 in 8 year

Kennedy - 4 in 3 year

LBJ - 4 in 5 years

Nixon - 1 in 6 years

Ford - 3 in 2 years

Carter - 3 in 4 years

Reagan - 5 in 8 years

Bush - 3 in 4 years

Clinton - 15 in 8 years

George W. Bush - 62 in 8 years

Obama - 923 in 3 1/2 years! More than 1000+ and counting Executive Orders in 6 years…

Unless I am misunderstanding something…

archives.gov

Administration of Barack Obama (2009-Present)

213 Total Executive orders Issued

Administration of George W. Bush (2001-2009)

291 Total Executive orders Issued

Administration of William J. Clinton (1993-2001)

364 Total Executive Orders Issued

Administration of Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)

381 Total Executive Orders Issued

re: #189 Nyet

Ike - 486, not 2…

re: #189 Nyet

Snopes of course:

snopes.com

re: #191 Nyet

Snopes of course:

snopes.com

There is a core set of EOs that basically tell fed Executive Branch employees how to respond to legislation, run their agencies, or hang the toilet paper in the men’s room. A number of them become technologically or legally obsolete in each administration and have to be rescinded (by EO) or renewed. That’s where most of each president’s new crop of signings comes from. As a result, the number of EOs tends to become cumulative.

re: #189 Nyet

Unless I am misunderstanding something…

archives.gov

You’re not misunderstanding anything. The people who post the fake are engaging in serious confirmation bias.

Domestic shadow that isn't going away pic.twitter.com/5Ukh3XylQZ

— Calestous Juma (@calestous) June 27, 2015

re: #173 goddamnedfrank

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You have the right to remain silent, but that was really fucking awesome.

So go rainbow. But same-sex marriage has been legal in Canada for ten years and queer and Two-Spirit youth still need vocal support.

— Melody McKiver (@m_melody) June 27, 2015

HUSTLE HARD FOR TWO-SPIRIT AND QUEER INDIGENOUS YOUTH. Because we've lost too many before they could even consider marriage.

— Melody McKiver (@m_melody) June 27, 2015

I am so sick of the hypocrisy and bullshit of the right.

In regards to SSM, they claim that states should be free to decide for them selves yet when states like California deciding to place limits on guns it is tyranny, as if the right to own a gun is somehow more important and more fundamental a right than the freedom to live your life and love who you will (you know, that whole life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness thing?)

And Ted Cruz’s bullshit about putting USSC Justices up for election? Sure, but we’ll rig the fucking game by denying the right to vote to the undesirables and the people who won’t vote like we want. And if that doesn’t work, we’ll move the goalposts some more.

They love and revere the Constitution, treating it like Holy Writ, but are willing to throw it away the first time it doesn’t read their way and enthusiastically debase everything it stands for. (Actually, now that I think about it, that’s pretty much exactly the same way they treat their Holy Bible so it shouldn’t be a surprise, should it?)

They respect and honor the troops for their service while arming and preparing to kill them in their action-movie inspired, delayed-adolescence, second American Revolution fantasies.

They’re proud patriots, yet celebrate a traitorous rebellion against the country,

It’s bullshit, all of it, and I’m sick to death of it. They need to be called out on it, loudly, publicly, and often.

The take the writers of the Constiution and amendments strictly by what they “believed” crowd is so stupid and dishonest. Kennedy and the other four correctly realize that the principles of the 14th make SSM Constituional and furthermore have read Loving. Ironically, Roberts and the three dissenters are despite their claims otherwise much more influenced by their own prejudices than the majority was.

Putting up Supreme Court judges for election is so stupid. He cries about how judges are too “partisan” now, and again I point out that a Reagan appointee wrote the majority, imagine now. Judges being appointed for life has worked. What Ted is proposing is simply because he does not like the rulings. At least there was some precedent to expand the court when FDR wanted to.

re: #197 Whack-A-Mole

In regards to SSM, they claim that states should be free to decide for them selves yet when states like California deciding to place limits on guns it is tyranny, as if the right to own a gun is somehow more important and more fundamental a right than the freedom to live your life and love who you will (you know, that whole life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness thing?)

Well, to much of the religious right, indeed the “right to bear arms” is an inalienable right of being a citizen of the US, while “marriage” is a sacrament practiced within the boundaries of a church.

Really, that is their belief system.

The people trolling and saying “While I support SSM, it should be up for a vote.” Uh no.

The Symbols. #BreeNewsome pic.twitter.com/pNQtXt6UXq

— Hal Dockins (@HalDockins) June 27, 2015

re: #201 HappyWarrior

The people trolling and saying “While I support SSM, it should be up for a vote.” Uh no.

It was. It won, 5-4

There is no reason why a gay couple shouldn’t be able to enjoy the same rights as a straight one. Now if your church wants to deny them a ceremony fine, they’re not or have ever been forced to but the state cannot. The Bible which contradicts itself on this issue anyhow is not our law.

re: #200 freetoken

Well, to much of the religious right, indeed the “right to bear arms” is an inalienable right of being a citizen of the US, while “marriage” is a sacrament practiced within the boundaries of a church.

Really, that is their belief system.

I can’t help but wonder - now that SSM is legal throughout the US, and as America continues on its way, its economy recovering (though with the usual boom-and-bust cycles) and as life goes on as normal, will the wingnuts fanaticism be broken at last? After all, as I type this, America has not fallen into the core of the Earth, a comet hasn’t hit NYC, San Francisco is still there and California has yet to fall into the Pacific Ocean.

When the wingnuts’ much-anticipated and fervently hoped-for “Great Judgement” fails to come to pass, what are they going to do? I know the human capacity for rationalization is practically infinite, but sooner or later, it’s going to have to occur to them that their apocalyptic fantasies are just that - fantasies.

Then what?

re: #203 darthstar

It was. It won, 5-4

Heh you know what I mean.

Colbert: 'Hard To Believe Gays Achieved Personhood Just 5 Years After Corporations Did' https://t.co/g1el47aioM via @sharethis

— DaveT62 (@DaveoutofAustin) June 27, 2015

re: #202 darthstar

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re: #205 Dr Lizardo

I can’t help but wonder - now that SSM is legal throughout the US, and as America continues on its way, its economy recovering (though with the usual boom-and-bust cycles) and as life goes on as normal, will the wingnuts fanaticism be broken at last?

No, at least I don’t believe it will end. Did the violence and killing and brutality towards African-Americans stop after they lost the Civil War? After integration and the CRM? No, they simply moved on to a guerrilla campaign of terror. And I really do worry that that will be repeated in the coming years.

@RickSantorum Ricky…are you trying to raise money off the poor bastards who still think marriage equality is bad? You are, aren't you?

— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) June 27, 2015

re: #197 Whack-A-Mole

My sentiments exactly. Exactly.

re: #198 HappyWarrior

The take the writers of the Constiution and amendments strictly by what they “believed” crowd is so stupid and dishonest. Kennedy and the other four correctly realize that the principles of the 14th make SSM Constituional and furthermore have read Loving. Ironically, Roberts and the three dissenters are despite their claims otherwise much more influenced by their own prejudices than the majority was.

Prejudice and religion. Not prejudice alone.

re: #205 Dr Lizardo

Checking the usual religious right internet outposts, pretty much everything is as you’d expect.

The ones with large vocabularies are writing long dissertations trying to defend their position that this is a work of Satan or something to that effect… all very weird, but that just goes to show that the human brain can build a library of sounds (i.e. words) without really having to be logical.

Most of the religious right though is just frothing incoherently.

This is not new.

Abortion was the same way after Roe v. Wade and that battle continues to this day.

We still have politicians today fighting evolution (and other modern science) on religious grounds.

Do not ever underestimate the need humans have for religious thinking. It is our creation, a way to deal with our individual (and universal) existential crisis.

The theistic religion of the Near East ( in its three most common evolutions: Judaism/Christianity/Islam) very much has wound into its DNA fears of sex and the need to control mating and childbearing. In my mind this goes along quite well with the individual existential dilemma, as an individual may be thought of as living on in their offspring.

There is a deep and abiding connection between sex and death.

The various social machinations we have today (such as USSC decisions) are pretty short term in the big picture of human evolution and human society (which is older than 5000 years, contra Santorum.)

And today, I wept yet again. #LoveWins pic.twitter.com/OMkd5f0wMF

— Jesus H. Christ (@IamJesusHChrist) June 27, 2015

re: #212 WhatEVs

Prejudice and religion. Not prejudice alone.

Prejudice influenced by religion, when I said prejudice, I meant influence from non legal sources.

Rick Santorum And One Man One Woman As Per Bible

Just go away Grifting Rick. Go away.

re: #216 Drive By Commenter

Rick Santorum And One Man One Woman As Per Bible

Just go away Grifting Rick. Go away.

Okay Rick but the Bible isn’t our law. The bible forbids a lot of things which you violate all the time without realizing it too. Here’s a tip, shut up about gay people and actually talk about issues or are you incapable of being but a homophobic troll.

In some good news, it seems Da’esh has been cleared out of Kobane by Kurdish forces.

“Kobani has been completely cleared of Daesh and Kurdish forces are now combing the town looking for fighters who may have gone into hiding,” activist Mustafa Bali, using the Arabic acronym for the IS, told The Associated Press by telephone from Kobani.

The official SANA news agency also said Kobani had been cleared of IS fighters and that forces were searching for any remaining militants.

Bali and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said fighting continued Saturday between the Kurdish forces and IS fighters in areas to the south and west of the town on the Turkish border. They did not have details.

huffingtonpost.com

While ISIS may be able to inspire fellow-travelers to individual acts of terrorism, as we saw yesterday, they seem to be facing increasing difficulties as a would-be nation state. Hopefully (insha’Allah) it won’t be much longer before their “caliphate” collapses entirely*.

*=yes, that’s likely gonna create a whole new series of problems as some of the Da’esh rats flee the sinking ship and attempt to return to their respective countries of origin.

re: #147 goddamnedfrank

Marriage equality and Obamacare are right up there with 9/11 and Pear Harbor apparently.

Ted Cruz isn’t the first person to jump on this retarded idea either.

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Bears flew planes into Bryan’s penis or something.

re: #217 HappyWarrior

Rick is much, much more than a homophobic troll. Much more.

re: #219 Viscous Obama

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Was happy to see a SNL cast member who lost his father on 9/11 call out that disgusting piece of shit.

re: #220 Drive By Commenter

Rick is much, much more than a homophobic troll. Much more.

Yes a homophobic troll who hates education too and tries to think he knows more science than a masters of chemistry.

re: #217 HappyWarrior

Okay Rick but the Bible isn’t our law. The bible forbids a lot of things which you violate all the time without realizing it too. Here’s a tip, shut up about gay people and actually talk about issues or are you incapable of being but a homophobic troll.

The Bible isn’t our law—the Constitution is. IANAL—and also, IANASCJ—but since the people who are are too stupid to do it, it’s pretty easy to determine what the Constitution says about marriage being “One Man One Woman As Per Bible”.

I Command-F’ed the whole fucker and found that the word “marriage” does not appear. (Neither does the word “woman” for that matter.) Can haz lifetime sinecure naow?

Well. At least one Fox host is willing to accept reality.

Megyn Kelly slams Huckabee for rejecting SCOTUS marriage ruling: ‘Like it or not, they get the final say’ http://t.co/ybIj48wERQ

— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) June 27, 2015

re: #224 darthstar

Well. At least one Fox host is willing to accept reality.

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She better watch it - FNC viewers ain’t gonna like that one bit.

HOW DARE SHE ALLOW REALITY TO INTRUDE INTO OUR BUBBLE AND DENY US OUR MARTYR COOKIES!!

Okay, @GOP, so you lost on health care and gay marriage. You can still campaign on giving guns to white psychos in 2016. And xenophobia.

— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) June 27, 2015

re: #202 darthstar

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I am really surprised she didn’t fall down from there riddled with bullets.

re: #227 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I am really surprised she didn’t fall down from there riddled with bullets.

The police probably saw the cameras in time.

The sun’s out. Birds are singing. I can hear traffic nearby, meaning that people are up and about, going to work, or to enjoy time with friends or family. Maybe they’re going to get breakfast then go to the lake, who knows?

No floods. No plagues of locusts and cicadas. No fires, or volcanic eruptions. No mass smiting from the Heavens. No major earthquakes. It’s almost as if the universe didn’t collapse in on itself when same-sex marriage became legal.

re: #139 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

AFAIK, no state constitution specifies marriage must be between one man and one woman. The only restrictions regard age of consent.

Or am I hallucinating?

Nevada’s Constitution was amended to state marriage was between one man and one woman. That was deemed unconstitutional within the past year.

Oh GOD, it burns… it BUUUUUUURRRRRRRRNNNNSSSSS!!! #LoveWins (again.) @tedcruz pic.twitter.com/iYmksIkHhP

— Pin Head (@TomAdelsbach) June 27, 2015

I have family that I care for who are gay. My one brother in law is happily married and him and his partner were married in Hawaii years ago. Now they are legal nationwide. My one cousin was just married to her partner a year ago and I just went to the anniversary party two weeks a go. They love and care for one another. I let them all know how happy I was for them, and how this week lent me hope that we can be better and actually become more humane and caring. I just want the pages of history to completely expose the evil behind the charlatans who wrap themselves in stars and stripes and hold a book in their hands and attempt to not only ruin lives, but destroy them. This fight is far from over but I am hopeful once again. It never ends. That’s why you never stop fighting. Never. Now there is only marriage. Me and my wife have been married 37 years and she is my everything. I hope that others can find that. Love is love.

RWNJ legal scholars all over teh internets have seized on this bit of fail as their latest talking point:

Teh Ghey being able to get married in all 50 states means my CCW should be applicable in all 50 states because “equal protection under teh law” and because a marriage license in one state applies to all of them.

What. The. Fuck.

re: #233 Lidane

RWNJ legal scholars all over teh internets have seized on this bit of fail as their latest talking point:

Teh Ghey being able to get married in all 50 states means my CCW should be applicable in all 50 states because “equal protection under teh law” and because a marriage license in one state applies to all of them.

What. The. Fuck.

The Constitution guarantees the right to bear arms, it does not guarantee the right to marry!!!

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re: #231 darthstar

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I wish I could upding that more. :D:D:D

Another thing I’ve been seeing making the rounds in places which wingnuts frequent is the “Persecution is already going on” schtik, often citing how a pastor in Germany got jailed for preaching against homosexuality.

Only, upon closer scrutiny, when one looks more closely at the case, he got convicted of holocaust denial. You see, in Germany it is illegal to deny the holocaust, even individual facets of it, including the gay victims.

Just a heads up for y’all.

re: #233 Lidane

RWNJ legal scholars all over teh internets have seized on this bit of fail as their latest talking point:

Teh Ghey being able to get married in all 50 states means my CCW should be applicable in all 50 states because “equal protection under teh law” and because a marriage license in one state applies to all of them.

What. The. Fuck.

Surprised they’re not begging to be married to their guns at this point. They certainly care more about guns than other people.

re: #236 Teukka

Another thing I’ve been seeing making the rounds in places which wingnuts frequent is the “Persecution is already going on” schtik, often citing how a pastor in Germany got jailed for preaching against homosexuality.

Only, upon closer scrutiny, when one looks more closely at the case, he got convicted of holocaust denial. You see, in Germany it is illegal to deny the holocaust, even individual facets of it, including the gay victims.

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Just a heads up for y’all.

Our idiots believe not only were there no gay holocaust victims but that gays were behind it.

re: #238 HappyWarrior

Our idiots believe not only were there no gay holocaust victims but that gays were behind it.

Yep. And I’d like to give a hearty “Fuck You” to Scott Lively for promulgating that bullshit.

re: #238 HappyWarrior

Our idiots believe not only were there no gay holocaust victims but that gays were behind it.

Oh yeah, the “Pink Swastika!” Schpiel.

*smh*

It’s cool to see on Facebook friends from all walks of life and family too express their support for yesterday’s historic moment.

Woke up, looked around outside my window. Got in my car, went downtown to the Kroger in The Brewery District. Drove back home. Turned on my computer. Logged in to LGF.

Guess what?

We’re still here. Everything seems the same.

I guess God, Mother Nature, and everything in the world is just the same as yesterday.

Fabulous!

re: #240 Teukka

Oh yeah, the “Pink Swastika!” Schpiel.

*smh*

Yeah Lively.

I didn’t know this. Shark stays down - no ping.

.@sugarpuff427 SPOT tag on dorsal fin needs to be dry for 90 sec to receive a location ping. @Shark_Katharine pic.twitter.com/YPaoZq5byr

— OCEARCH (@OCEARCH) June 27, 2015